A Note on Smoothing Distribution Function Estimation

  • Chu, In-Sun (Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Dong-A University) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Ryong (Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Dong-A University)
  • Published : 1997.12.01

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider the problem of selection of optimal smoothing parameter for kernel-type distribution function estimator, which asymptotically minimizes mean Hellinger distance.

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